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John Wilson: I've been toying around with the whole "how to" genre for a little while actually. I just love that style of editing and the narrative possibilities. I thought a lot about the lives of people who make those videos and I thought it would be a really great format for a memoir. That, mixed with the fact that I was obsessively documenting the entire process. I was afraid that if I didn't do something constructive with that whole experience it just would have been a net loss.
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Good question. Not really sure about that one. It's a little contradictory, but I don't really want the films to be about me necessarily. Pseudonyms make it a little easier to shift perspective and approach the subject matter with the appropriate persona. That also may be looking into it way too much.Has anyone ever gotten upset with you for filming them so voyeuristically?
Not really. I could be doing much weirder things. I keep myself at a safe distance and try not to disturb the scene.How does it feel to be bedbug free (for the moment)?
I will always have this lingering fear that they will return one day. A lot of the bed bug industry is actually directed towards prevention rather than extermination. Like, there's that subway ad right now for this TSA compliant rolling suitcase that you plug in and it heats up everything inside to 140 degrees to kill any bed bugs that may have latched onto your stuff during a vacation. I also have a really terrifying cutout from sky mall of this one product called the Bed Bug Thwarting Sleeping Cocoon. It's something I could talk about for hours but at a point you just need to forget they exist.What are you working on at the moment?I just finished another film called How to Walk to Manhattan. It's a slightly different character. It's about the instability of New York's rental market. It also has a lot of little observations on civic design.What kind of camera do you shoot on?
This little Canon camera that is about the size of a cigarette box. The only two requirements I have for a camera are that it turns on quickly and has a great zoom.Jeffrey Bowers is a tall mustached guy from Ohio who's seen too many weird movies. He currently lives in Brooklyn, working as an art and film curator. He is a programmer at the Hamptons International Film Festival and screens for the Tribeca Film Festival. He also self-publishes a super fancy mixed-media art serial called PRISM index.@PRISMindexPreviously - I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: Food
